tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40850925704938094882015-07-26T01:21:51.945-06:00Willow's Web AstrologyWillownoreply@blogger.comBlogger647125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-22672893673870152832015-07-23T11:44:00.000-06:002015-07-23T11:44:04.119-06:00Led By the Deep-Down Depths of Our Hearts During This Sizzling Hot (And Historical) Leo Season
Wild Roses and Tiger Lilies with Yellow Flower Photograph Grouping
from Renegade Heifer Photography
Photos: Willow, on Willow's wall
The Sun and Mercury have just entered Leo, the sign of the rock star, the artist, and the local celeb, and these bodies form their exterior conjunction today on the zero degree of Leo (1:23 p.m. CST), squared by the Moon in Scorpio tonight (10:04 p.m.).
Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-35751427427219001602015-07-20T15:57:00.001-06:002015-07-25T10:48:01.422-06:00Stationing Venus and Saturn in Extended Square Aspect: Money, Relationships, and Changing Values As We Get Older
Wild Tiger Lilies by the garden spot
Photos: Willow
Renegade Heifer Photography
Love, relationship, money, and values planet Venus is currently slowed in the zodiac, preparing for its retrograde station July 25 on the zero degree of Virgo. Venus is in an extended square (tense, frictional, dynamic) aspect with Saturn, which is also slowed in the zodiac, preparing to move direct August 2.
Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-160027426519862342015-07-02T07:01:00.000-06:002015-07-02T07:01:12.310-06:00A Volatile Few Weeks As Venus Squares Saturn and Multiple Bodies in Cancer Trigger the Uranus-Pluto SquareJust before entering fiery Leo and preparing for retrograde motion, love, money, and relationship planet Venus triggered the Uranus-Pluto square from Cancer in late May 2015. This foretold the movement of certain relationships into new and stronger position while turbulence was created in others that were weakening and preparing to come to completion (or to change forms).
From "Venus in Cancer Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-68822710896620107152015-06-23T09:50:00.000-06:002015-06-23T21:06:12.303-06:00A New Love, Relationship, and Money Cycle Begins With Venus in Leo…But First That Unfinished Scorpy Business
Photo: Willow
Renegade Heifer Photography
To understand the context of the months ahead, I encourage readers to review this article sent out to patrons in February 2015: Saturn Retrograde: the Final Resolution of Old Heartbreaks, Hurts, and Unfinished Business
The article outlines the connection between
the current Saturn retrograde, now making a final dip into deep, dark,
Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-85739284929219494952015-05-30T08:42:00.002-06:002015-05-30T09:12:14.291-06:00Coming into Hard-Won Emotional Truth Under the Sagittarius Full Moon
Photo: Willow
Renegade Heifer Photography
The Moon is currently in deep, dark, percolating Scorpio ahead of the 11-degree Sagittarius Full Moon on June 1/2. (The Sadge Full Moon will be exact at 10:19 a.m. CST on June 2.)
With the Moon now transiting Scorpio as it moves to its monthly peak, things are simmering and percolating internally, on the emotional plane, ahead of the Full Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-53154200596162059352015-05-24T09:46:00.000-06:002015-05-24T11:26:10.664-06:00Rude, Crude Pluto in Scorpios (No, Not All of You) and Failing the North Node in Libra Lessons
I've written previously about my weekend job at the honky tonk dive bar in town. I've also written about how contact with the Pluto in Scorpio redneck crowd constantly throws my Libra/Pluto in Libra social sensibilities and consideration for others into a state of wounded shock.
Last night at the pub was no exception, and I offer this as an example of the (I would say appalling) mindset changeWillownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-88758537200514892972015-05-21T10:53:00.000-06:002015-05-21T10:53:07.002-06:00Merc Rx Re-Post: Introducing Hexagon Astrology Magazine: Sharp. Smart. Subversive.
Note: I've received word from editor-in-chief Matt Savinar that the Hexagon Astrology Magazine Kickstarter campaign is at just over 50% of its financial goal. This is great news, but we need some more juice to get it over the top.
If you are a fan of this blog, this magazine will be right up your alley. In fact, the premier issue features three of my articles. This magazine will Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-64914723019005916562015-05-20T09:54:00.002-06:002015-05-20T09:54:29.559-06:00Venus in Cancer Triggers the Uranus-Pluto SquareVenus in Cancer is currently triggering the Uranus-Pluto square, creating a surge of cardinal tension that propels us into new territory. This makes May 21 - 25 a potent time for positioning ourselves in relationships and money
matters. Strides must be made now. New leadership must be assumed, especially social leadership and leadership within our families. The times are calling upon us.
This Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-66374957283716938152015-05-18T09:59:00.001-06:002015-05-18T09:59:49.230-06:00Thank-you, WWA Patrons and Commenters!Taurus is a sign related to gratitude, so I'd like to take this opportunity, coming out of the Taurus New Moon last night, to thank all the patrons of this site. You keep this site running. There's no question in my mind. Many times I've wondered if I could continue this work, and your financial support has allowed me to keep going. That is no small thing. So thank-you.
With all the Mercury/Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-83374311688192193642015-05-16T13:15:00.001-06:002015-05-16T13:15:48.527-06:00Getting Our Hands Dirty as We Move Through the Taurus (Farmer/Rancher) New Moon
You mess with the bull, you get the horns.
Photos: Willow
The Moon is currently in exaltation in Taurus ahead of the Taurus New Moon on May 17 (10:13 p.m. CST) when the Sun and Moon will come together in conjunction at 26 degrees of the sign. This kicks off a 28-day lunar cycle coloured by themes of Taurus the Bull until June 16.
Taurus energy is rich, rustic, sensuous, earthy. It's Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-26153319714565838962015-05-11T15:36:00.002-06:002015-05-19T11:19:18.840-06:00Mars Joins the Mercury Retrograde in Gemini PartyAction planet Mars completes its long haul through Taurus, the sign of its detriment, entering lighter territory in Gemini at 8:40 p.m. CST tonight. The denseness, grounded effort, and slower timing of Taurus can be very frustrating for our boy Mars to endure, something it has had to do, like it or not, since entering the sign of the bull on March 31. We've really been putting our shoulders into Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-6355126710158864862015-04-30T20:16:00.002-06:002015-05-04T12:01:01.124-06:00The Darkest Dark and the Lightest Light Under the Scorpio Full Moon
The Moon is now growing fuller in Libra heading to the yearly Scorpio Full Moon, exact May 3 (9:42 p.m. CST) at 13 degrees opposite the 13-degree Taurus Sun.
(This Full Moon forms an exact fixed t-square with Jupiter in Leo.)
A Full Moon in Scorpio tends to illuminate hidden feelings, underlying emotional and psychological subtext, and soulful attractions that have previously been kept on theWillownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-25951691593568950302015-04-28T11:09:00.000-06:002015-05-08T09:20:11.757-06:00Mercury Enters the Shadow of a Very Neptunian (And Divinely-Guided) Retrograde Period in Gemini
Photos: Willow, Renegade Heifer Photography
Mercury, considered the "winged messenger" planet of the zodiac, is associated
with communication, connections, messages, transportation, the mind and intellect, and the exchange
of information.
Mercury enters home sweet home Gemini on April 30 (8:00 p.m. CST), a sign it rules, indicating that mental function and the movement of information will Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-48519225314707509842015-04-25T12:13:00.001-06:002015-04-26T11:25:22.859-06:00Introducing Hexagon Astrology Magazine: Smart. Sharp. Subversive.
"Ladies of the Zodiac: It's Show Time (Astrology of the Feminine Asteroids)" by Willow in Hexagon Astrology Magazine
I'm happy to announce an exciting new astrology publication coming out this August called Hexagon Astrology Magazine. This is a high quality, cutting edge print publication being put out by editor, founder, and astrologer Matt Savinar from Sebastopol, California.
Your Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-37836806293302925902015-04-13T19:55:00.000-06:002015-04-13T19:55:07.635-06:00Lord of the Underworld Pluto Creeps and Crawls to a Stop as it Stations Retrograde After the Final Uranus-Pluto Square
Photo: Willow
Pluto is currently just about stopped in the zodiac and will station retrograde (appear to shift into backward motion) at 15 degrees Capricorn on April 16 at 9:54 p.m. CST. The Lord of the Underworld is still in tight square to Uranus in Aries, though the retrograde motion starts to put more distance between these two bodies as Uranus continues direct.
Uranus (planet of Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-8574334718347601192015-04-09T13:40:00.000-06:002015-04-09T16:08:21.893-06:00Twenty GM Alfalfa "Demonstration Plots" to be Planted in Eastern Canada in 2015, "Co-existence" Plan Moving Full Speed Ahead
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Wisconsin-based Forage Genetics is moving full speed ahead with its "co-existence plan" for genetically modified (GM) alfalfa in Canada, despite the fact that co-existence with a feral, perennial crop like alfalfa is impossible.
Twenty "demonstration plots" of genetically modified alfalfa are scheduled to be planted in Eastern Canada during the 2015 Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-1938809172599299062015-04-01T09:15:00.000-06:002015-04-03T10:50:17.413-06:00Honky Tonk Beer Slingin' and the Detrimental Dating Habits of the Pluto in Scorpios
I recently started working casually at the little honky tonk bar in town.
(It's the only bar in town.)
Beer slingin' is just in my blood, I guess.
I worked off and on as a waitress and cocktail server for 10 years, but those years were many moons ago, and when I got poisoned by Cipro and my tendons started breaking down, I thought my service industry days were over.
But it's all about Willownoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-77394553623738348382015-03-23T12:31:00.000-06:002015-03-23T12:31:12.731-06:00Equinox-ing, Tipping Toward the Sun, and Watching Each Others' Backs For Dirty Piscean Tricks
Happy Equinox!
Photo: Willow's Mama
We are now coming out of the 29-degree Pisces New Moon total solar eclipse March 20 that kicked off spring with a bang in the northern hemisphere. The "backdrop change" themes of that eclipse are now carried through Aries season (March 20 - April 20).
We're opening into an all-encompassing new expression of Pisces over
the next 28 days - an expression Willownoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-37289867538432806502015-03-15T13:50:00.002-06:002015-03-15T13:50:58.976-06:00Intensity BuffersCommunication planet Mercury has just nicely settled into Pisces (late on March 12) after an extended stay in highly-cerebral Aquarius since January 4, including a retrograde period from January 21 to February 11. That extended stay in Aquarius pretty much blistered our brains with an overload of flash-bang Uranian insights since the beginning of the year.
Whether you found the Mercury in Willownoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-75548604754115799822015-03-10T06:32:00.000-06:002015-03-10T13:44:42.556-06:00The Main EventThe Moon is currently transiting Scorpio (until it surfaces in Sagittarius at 5:30 p.m. CST on March 11), which means the general emotional climate is coloured strongly by dispositor bad boys Mars in Aries tightly square Pluto in Capricorn. You can cut the tension with a knife.
The emotional state is deep, dark, and compacted with some simmering rage possible.
No one, and I mean no one, is in Willownoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-50176169739521034912015-03-03T12:59:00.005-06:002015-03-03T12:59:56.290-06:00Patrons Not Receving Articles in their Email InboxI've received word that a couple patrons are not receiving their articles in their email inbox.
Patrons, would you please check to make sure that you are receiving the articles from me?
The last article that was sent out was titled: "Saturn Retrograde Sets its Steely Gaze on Late Scorpio: the Final Resolution of Old Heartbreaks, Hurts, and Unfinished Business," and I believe it was sent out on Willownoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-19157231243495646512015-02-26T12:52:00.002-06:002015-02-26T12:52:29.205-06:00Just a Little "Intensity Heads Up"It's apparent that things are just plain too intense on Planet Earth at the moment, but the tension and edge don't appear to let up all that much for the next six weeks.
We're closing in on the seventh and final square between Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn, exact March 16. This is the first square of the series where both planets are moving direct, and the velocity with which things areWillownoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-26096352243811415832015-02-25T10:10:00.001-06:002015-02-25T10:10:59.933-06:00Avoiding the Seven-Year Itch at Willow's Web Astrology Blog
Today is the seven-year anniversary of the first Willow's Web Astrology blog post, which hit the astro blogosphere with a bang on February 25, 2008.
I was living in oil-rich, gentrified-and-cleansed Calgary, Alberta at the time, working at a magical import art store called Art of My Heart. Art of My Heart was, unfortunately, bulldozed over by the Pluto in Capricorn steamroller in early 2009. Willownoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-46047659195160714172015-02-23T10:01:00.001-06:002015-06-23T05:57:05.381-06:00Saturn Retrograde Sets its Steely Gaze on Late Scorpio: the Final Resolution of Old Heartbreaks, Hurts, and Unfinished BusinessThe planet of karmic challenges, Saturn, is currently slowing to station retrograde in Sagittarius, and the squeeze is on during the last days of February and first three weeks of March.
Saturn will station at 4 degrees Sagittarius on March 14 (9:02 a.m. CST) for a retrograde period that lasts until August 2, 2015.
With Saturn stationing retrograde, we may experience increased feelings of Willownoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4085092570493809488.post-31065727447515534862015-02-13T16:47:00.001-06:002015-02-13T16:47:30.404-06:00"Pisces For the Aquarian Era" and More Post-Pisces Clearance on the Love Front
Pisces Season. Sleepy. Shh.
Photo: Willow
We are now moving into a 29-degree Aquarius New Moon on February 18 (5:47 p.m. CST) - the bookend New Moon to the zero-degree Aquarius New Moon we experienced January 20.
New Moons indicate new cycles opening and something fresh about to unfold, especially related to emotions and emotional patterns. With bookend New Moons in Aquarius, we are Willownoreply@blogger.com11